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| Keywords: The Quarterly journal of the Geological Society of London (12961245023).jpg 1868 <br> KINGSMILL GEOLOGY OF CHIJfA <br> 121 <br> 1 <br> Kintse-schan <br> pass 750 ft <br> Coal <br> Ankowan village <br> Coal-mine closed <br> Fossils in chert <br> Summit 850 ft <br> p ” 4 <br> c3 <br> o <br> 02 <br> - -' <br> 2Q <br> 0 <br> ¢r- <br> PhO <br> Oi c3 <br> Ci5 <br> 050 <br> ¢ DQ <br> CO I <br> O ID <br> o o <br> a a <br> 4 H l <br> lOCO <br> 03 <br> S 00 D <br> d; <br> w -rt <br> q o <br> M OO <br> a a <br> their fine ink-stones The <br> extreme upper beds are more <br> shalj and have yielded fossils <br> both animal and vegetable I <br> have met with but one locality <br> for each however ” the former <br> near Kiukiang at the foot of <br> the Lu-shan the latter in the <br> Si Tungting-shan in the Tai- <br> hu Of the former I have col- <br> lected ; ” <br> Some doubtful fish-scales <br> An Orthoceratite <br> Two Cirri <br> A Gryphcea <br> A smaU doubtful conchifer <br> The above like most of the <br> fossils of the Tungting series <br> are excessively badly pre- <br> served <br> Of vegetable remains I have <br> noticed the following ” <br> A Lepidodendron with small <br> lozenge-shaped reticulations <br> Some stems of conifers and <br> possibly leaves of the same <br> A Pecopteris <br> Apparently two other forms <br> not sufficiently well marked for <br> determination <br> Fragments of leaves with <br> parallel striae <br> The vegetable remains at <br> least seem to indicate an early <br> age for the containing rock <br> These rocks in the south of <br> China are eminently developed <br> in the vaUey of the Si-kiang <br> or West River which rises in <br> the frontier districts of Yun- <br> nan and Kwangsi and flow- <br> ing on towards the delta of <br> the Canton river disembogues <br> finally at the western side of <br> the island on which is situated <br> the Portuguese settlement of <br> Macao Mr Bickmore describes <br> them likewise as forming the <br> foundation rock in the valley <br> of the Kweikiang or Cassia 36102966 111288 51125 Page 121 Text v 25 http //www biodiversitylibrary org/page/36102966 1869 Geological Society of London NameFound Lepidodendron NameConfirmed Lepidodendron EOLID 13132167 NameBankID 4921583 NameFound Pecopteris NameConfirmed Pecopteris EOLID 6873147 NameBankID 4846460 Biodiversity Heritage Library The Quarterly journal of the Geological Society of London v 25 1869 Geology Periodicals Smithsonian Libraries bhl page 36102966 dc identifier http //biodiversitylibrary org/page/36102966 smithsonian libraries Information field Flickr posted date ISOdate 2014-03-06 Check categories 2015 August 26 CC-BY-2 0 BioDivLibrary https //flickr com/photos/61021753 N02/12961245023 2015-08-26 15 58 21 cc-by-2 0 PD-old-70-1923 The Quarterly journal of the Geological Society of London 1869 Photos uploaded from Flickr by Fæ using a script | ||||
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